Hello everyone,

We unfortunately have to close the !lemmyshitpost community for the time being. We have been fighting the CSAM (Child Sexual Assault Material) posts all day but there is nothing we can do because they will just post from another instance since we changed our registration policy.

We keep working on a solution, we have a few things in the works but that won’t help us now.

Thank you for your understanding and apologies to our users, moderators and admins of other instances who had to deal with this.

Edit: @Striker@lemmy.world the moderator of the affected community made a post apologizing for what happened. But this could not be stopped even with 10 moderators. And if it wasn’t his community it would have been another one. And it is clear this could happen on any instance.

But we will not give up. We are lucky to have a very dedicated team and we can hopefully make an announcement about what’s next very soon.

Edit 2: removed that bit about the moderator tools. That came out a bit harsher than how we meant it. It’s been a long day and having to deal with this kind of stuff got some of us a bit salty to say the least. Remember we also had to deal with people posting scat not too long ago so this isn’t the first time we felt helpless. Anyway, I hope we can announce something more positive soon.

  • nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world
    323·
    11 months ago

    Potential sabotage. There’s definitely a corporate interest in killing the Fediverse and getting people like you and me back to Reddit and Twitter.

    Plus for outside groups with potential interest who aren’t informed of the situation, Lemmy is now branded as that CSAM site so people are not as likely to come here and or leave their established mainstream social platforms

    • Ab_intra@lemmy.world
      39·
      11 months ago

      This is sabotage on another level. The people posting this faces seriously time in jail for just having it on their PC.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      11 months ago

      I think it’s been the same people throughout, starting with the defacing, followed by the DDOS’es, and now this. Judging from the content of the defacing, it’s bigots who don’t like the idea of someplace they’re not welcome.

      • nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world
        156·
        11 months ago

        Ah so exploding head fucktards.

        The ones that care so much about “grooming” and “leave kids alone”

        Who would have thought that was all projection!? Wait we all did

        • sab@lemmy.world
          3·
          11 months ago

          The problem with asking “who’s behind this untraceable* attack?” is that you either truthful but useless answers (we don’t know), or just someone speculating that their “enemy” is responsible. I wouldn’t use the word projection so easily in this context, if I were you.

          (* unless you consider interpol and the likes)

          • nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world
            11·
            11 months ago

            seriously, you’re defending…them? Also I have the right to make assumptions based on previous attacks thesee all occurred right after defederation…so yes, hate groups like them are suspect #1

            “If I were you”

            Annnnd what is that supposed to imply?

            • sab@lemmy.world
              3·
              11 months ago

              I’m not defending anyone.

              I didn’t expect I had to spell it out for you, but here’s what I’m saying: Until some kind of international investigation force comes out with clear evidence, anyone who tells you “who did it”, is just projecting who they want to be the perpetrator.